Finalists announced for the Washington State Book Awards

Originally published September 11, 2015 at 2:00 am
Updated September 11, 2015 at 3:02 pm

Tom Robbins, author of “Tibetan Peach Pie,” is a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. photo by Erika Schultz

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The Washington Center for the Book has announced the finalists for the 2015 Washington State Book Awards, prizes given in seven categories for books published in 2014 by Washington state authors.

The center for the book, headquartered in the Seattle Public Library, chose these books as finalists for each of the prizes. To be eligible, an author must have been born in Washington State or is a current resident and has maintained residence here for at least three years.

The winners will be announced Saturday Oct. 10 at an awards celebration at the Seattle Public Library. Here are the finalists:

Fiction

“Steal the North” (Viking/Penguin) by Heather Brittain Bergstrom (Viking/Penguin). Bergstrom is a Washington State native who lives in Yuba City, Calif.

“A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain” (Penguin Books) by Port Townsend resident Adrianne Harun.